Tag: unicode
PHP 6 — The Version That Never Shipped
PHP 6 was a major development effort (2005–2010) that aimed to bring native Unicode support to PHP but was abandoned due to complexity and performance problems — its features were later cherry-picked into PHP 5.3 and 5.4.
6mo ago
PHP beginner
PHP Intl Extension
PHP 5.3+
3
PHP's built-in internationalisation extension wrapping ICU — MessageFormatter, Collator, NumberFormatter, DateFormatter, and Normalizer for correct multilingual handling.
6mo ago
i18n intermediate
PHP Intl Extension — Unicode
PHP 5.3+
2
Grapheme functions, Normalizer, and Transliterator — correct multilingual text handling beyond what mb_string provides, including emoji and combining characters.
6mo ago
PHP advanced